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. "By Sinclair Lewis

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THE 8. B. DR. FRANKLIN, with its whistle unhappily blatting, came in a cold rain up to the muddy landing at St. Paul. The only buildings on hand were Louis Robert's old log store and a moldy warehouse. A swampy trail led up the bluff to a little log Catholic chapel, like a rough stable. A couple of log stores were up there, and a few frame houses, but most of St. Paul was com-

posed of disheveled cabins roofed with bark or with damp, discol-| Roman statue walking came a man at whom all the habitues

ored hay. “ " “ A few citizens, all male, had yelled, “Hey, Joe!" or “Have a ambled down to meet the boat./drink, Major?” He was a nobler taller, less plump,

Most of them were clerks or [Daz a eyes, a great t 4 can ) Er A Ee Sarasins, talk. blunt nose, & tight mouth and &

vas jackets and moccasins, talking in Canadian French. There Wave of dark hair down about his

were one soldier and one Indian ears. —the first Sioux that Aaron had| Gunstead exulted, “That's Joe ever seen nearby. {Brown himself—Joseph R. Brown. | The St. Paul House, the only He's bound to be governor, when

# hotel in the settlement, was as- we get statehood, and then, more

very old 'n likely, Presidént of the nation.

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ing room here for tonight—just shoulders of duchegses.

walked through the village.

joys of the St, Paul House and

candles set in saucers. { : He sat at a pine table, alone, | troPolis on this globe,

unloved, unwanted. He was noj longer a good companion, but a missionary. ’ Counselor Billy Phillips ha thrown open his coat, the bette | displaying a watch charm which {was a golden dog with ruby eyes, | and he was shouting, “Gentlemen land friends, shall I‘ now en[tertain this court by reciting |‘Marco Bozzaris,’ or by melodi-|

if I don’t think I mean very near

fairyland.”

| Sweet Afton'?” They bellowed for “Afton.” | “Billy Phillips had a true tenor,

tradesman of genius, Mr. Dicken

| remembering other days: “How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neigh-| boring hills.”

i . r » IN THIS raw barroom, Aaron

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hills-of Berkshire County, kind or to destroy, in freedom. | with beech and elm and maple; of}

| white houses with the tolerance to him confusingly that all h

given up all this for a-flat-and Will of God. ragged and unseasoned land. 8s 5 Aaron wondered of what Farm-er-Hiram Gunstead, him, was sadly thinking: Salt marshes and lobster pots, or the priekly Blue Mountains? Without any clear intention, Aaron said|the oak and tamarack,

Indian agent, at Ft. Snelling.

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fonable drinking place in.town. “we stand here on holy ground— gjonaries. | Jake Bass, the proprietor, was though it needs a slight brushing-| | a Vermonter, a Braintree man, yp, Head of navigation on the worthy leaders and Mr. Hopkins, |{imperial Mississippi, two jots and who's stationed at Traverse des Aaron had struggled up the hill 3 hop-skip from Fond du Lac, at|g8joux, is a fine athletic young to the St. Paul House, with hisithe nobler end of noble Lake Su-|feliow, “Famatt thr —trunk—on—his—-right: shoulder, his carpetbag in his of the winsom West somewhat yeteran of five years’ service in left hand, and mud seeping UP immodestly displayed as it roils Minnesota missions. the leg of his clerical new black on past the envious Rocky Moun-| Ulysses and Achilles of these wartrousers. Mrs. Bass, at the pine tains to where nightly (In S000 | ya desk in the dining room office;| weather) the sun gives his nup- \ wailed, “Oh, now Reverend, that's tial kiss to the languorous Pa-| a shame. Every room is taken— cific—yes, and north to a land| six people sleeping in Room One. which, however hard on the ears | But I can give you a nice clean and toes in January, produces-the mattress on the floor of the din-|furs that adorn the voluptuous |

a few other people sleeping here.” | «,.4 right in the center of all| He accepted, and disconsolately fi munificent wealth stands St. | | . Never had Aaron been half ofan: ’ Eo el lonely as when he straggled backl,,, ;oqtest of the disciples. The in the bleak wet twilight to the ineluctable power of destiny had {chosen it to be the most mam-| its . barroom lighted by sperm, .¢y corgeous and powerful me-

“And I'm damned, gentlemen,

|ly a quarter. of this; Oh, it's a 4 good country — Minnesota. You rican plow your own honest earth, cut your own trees, swim in your own lakes as joyful as a king in|

Years afterward, when he read Martin Chuzzlewit, Aaron realized from his memory of Joe Brown ously” rendering Flow Gent that Ralf of, th Sruorice Te

had heard and indignantly noted down had been mocking exaggera- | and he sang imploringly, like onel. on intended to mislead the in-

No more, at least on that first evening, did Aaron long for the tighit valleys of Massachusetts. | thought with anguish of the burly| This was his own West, to create

| - He was stumbingly saying his! unexpected, nestling valleys, of Prayers that night before it came

lof age, and of Selene at the| freedom now was supposed-to-lie fg center of it all. He had wilfully in joyful obedience’to the supreme

‘BEFORE he could settle at the| across from Mission, in Sioux territory, Aaron) had to have permission from thé

He tramped tb the fort, through and| suddenly, “But this'll be a better crossed in a boat ferry, rowed land—no rocks—and it'll be ours,|by a wild-looking French half-| |breed, to the west bank of the

fired a gun. Looming into the room like a'The stripped Indians had looked

at it and seen that they mustiriors are the Pond brothers—Red: be wrong. Eagle und Brown Bear, the Sioux . Its two stone towers and massy call them, stone walls looked down on the| “While we are awaiting these junction. of the. Mississippl with argonauts, would it, uh, offend the Minnesota River, which would you if I suggested that we adbe Aaron's future highway west- journ to my modest quarters and, wm if I offered you a very mild glass

The agent's story-and-a-half stone dwelling and the armorer's hut, where blacksmithing was done for the Indians, lay a quarter of a mile west of the fort, on the prairie. . The agent was called Major Murphy. Indian agents were called Major automatically, as the owners of newspapers and racehorses have always been called Cononel and Congressmen against whom it has never been quite proven are called Honorable. While Aaron was humbly wait-|iie¢ Pond brothers, Samuel Wiling on & wooden bench outside the lam and Gideon Hollister Pond, Major's office, a gentleman in the Connecticut farmer-scholars. clerical garb Tushed up to him [They were men near 40, men like bubbling, “Mr. Gadd? I'm Ezekiel Oreat Danes, just as courageous Gear chaplain at the fort— | And formidable and honest, and Father Gear they call me, though Just a8 nay pathetic 3 jhe and more playful animals, {the Dear Lord knows why, be- They were all brave and eager,

’ | cause I'm not at all fatherly. Dr. these missionaries, and worn with

|Willlamson, the moderator of thel, | Presbytery, rod and cold and bad food. There Dakota Presbytery, sefit ms word was nothing of the holy, hushed

’ f jon Elder Harge's behalf to keep mystic about any of them, except

{an eye out for you: Splendid people, the Presbyterian mis for moments in Gideon Pond. (Continued

” " » 4 FATHER GEAR had scarcely finished his mild laughtér when! Aaron's colleagues trooped

D., was a broad, rocky man, rather like sharper of eye.

it was Robert Hopkins,

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